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Final Mission

I know a lot of these episodes are just delivery mechanisms for Patrick Stewart to give a speech, but we need to aim a little higher than “Final Mission.” We deserved–

Wil Wheaton deserved more than a flimsy B-plot separating him from the Enterprise while he went through the motions of an A-plot until Patrick Stewart could act a goodbye at him.

And then, after decades of Star Trek trying to use real physics, they ignore Newton’s First Law to make one story happen and use magical bullshit for the other one.

I get angrier about this episode the more I think about it. What makes me consistently, clearly, irrationally angry is that this episode introduces Boothby, a character that other nerds obsess over to the point that I’m ready to burn shit down.

Scale of one to ten, how infuriating is “Final Mission”?

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The Halloween episode with Alara? I can kinda see that, but then again Doom: Repercussions of Evil fixes some of the flaws in the Wesley “plot.”

I think there was a time in TNG/DS9 where that sort of self-awareness allowed for those kinds of jokes, but I think the self-awareness stopped for a bit ’round Voyager-times before Enterprise got into it again because it was flirting with going full camp.